Urban Utopias: Excess and Expulsion in Neoliberal South Asia

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Introduction: Urban Utopias—Excess and Expulsion in Neoliberal India and Sri Lanka....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
The Impossibility of World-Class Slum-Free Indian Cities and the Fantasy of ‘Two Indias’....Pages 19-36
Guarded Luxotopias and Expulsions in New Delhi: Aesthetics and Ideology of Outer and Inner Spaces of an Urban Utopia....Pages 37-52
Golden or Green? Growth Infrastructures and Resistance in Goa....Pages 53-73
 Vikasanam: The Expansionist Choreography of Space-Making in Kerala....Pages 75-95
Cities of Neoliberal Future: Urban Utopia in Indian Science Fiction Cinema....Pages 97-115
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
Manifesting Sri Lankan Megalomania: The Rajapakses’ Vision of Empire and of a Clean Colombo....Pages 119-138
A Modern Chakravartin: Mayawati’s New Buddhist Visual Culture....Pages 139-167
Past as a Metaphor in the New Utopian Imaginations of Heritage in Kerala....Pages 169-187
Excavating the City: Metro Rail Construction and Imagination of Past in Contemporary Jaipur....Pages 189-205
Front Matter....Pages 207-207
Utopia or Elsewhere: Queer Modernities in Small Town West Bengal....Pages 209-225
Utopia Interrupted: Indian Sex/Gender Dissident Activism and the Everyday Search for a Life Worth Living....Pages 227-246
Queerness’s Domain?: Queer Negotiations, Utopian Visions and the Failures of Heterotopias in Bangalore....Pages 247-267
Epilogue: The Promise of Urbanity—How the City Makes Life Worth Living....Pages 269-279
Back Matter....Pages 281-289